The Objective Blog

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.

Amazon Lightsail

React Native Fabric

A React Native package which provides native bindings for both Crashlytics and Answers. Crashlytics reports errors and exceptions thrown by your mobile application and Answers allows you to gather analytics.

The Balanced Ternary Machines of Soviet Russia

An early Russian computer, the Setun, used “balanced ternary” instead of binary numbers. Only about 50 machines were produced. Ultimately, these machines were replaced with binary counterparts that were able to calculate with similar efficiency but at more than twice the cost of operation.

Mitsuku Chatbot

Mitsuku has won awards for being the “most human-like chatbot.” One person even spent nine hours straight chatting with it. Mitsuku’s learning agorithm only allows her to learn facts for the user who teaches her. She emails Steve Worswick, her creator, with any information she learns and he decides whether to add it to her permanent knowledge.

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.

Inspect

This tool streamlines the development process. It helps eliminate design spec guessing, so developers don’t have to ask designers for assets.

True Lies of Optimistic User Interfaces

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.

Works with Stripe

Works with Stripe provides a directory of tools that are integrated with the Stripe payment system. It includes things like analytics, invoicing, and form building.

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.

Microsoft Teams

As part of Office 365, Teams will be launching in competition with Slack. A notable feature with Teams is that you will have the ability to have threaded comments.

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.

Liminal Thinking

A great intro to a new book by Dave Gray on ‘Liminal Thinking’ and creating change. Breaking through your limited beliefs will help you gain insight and view situations differently.